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dēnŭō , adv. contr. from dē nŏvo, which never occurs; v. Ruhnk. Ter. And. prol. 26; Oud. App. M. 3, p. 225.; cf.: Fr. de nouveau,
I.anew, afresh, again (most freq. in Plaut. and Ter.; elsewh. rare; not in Caes. or the Aug. poets—for syn. cf.: iterum, rursus, ab integro).
I. Of the restoration of a thing which has been destroyed, = de integro, anew, afresh, ἐκ καινῆς: “aedificantur aedes totae denuo,Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 36; cf.: “urbes terrae motu subversas denuo condidit,Suet. Aug. 47: “oportet vos nasci denuo,Vulg. Joan. 3, 7. —
III. For rursus, of any thing that is repeated (not precisely a second time), once more, again; hence often with verbs compounded with re: “ecce Apollo denuo, etc.,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 115: So. Amphitruonis ego sum servus Sosia. Me. Etiam denuo? what, again? id. Amph. 1, 1, 238; 1, 1, 139; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 60: “Sicilia censa denuo est,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56: “recita denuo,id. ib. 2, 1, 14.—Pleonast. with redire, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 51; cf. id. Truc. 2, 4, 42; “with redauspicari,id. ib. 3, 5, 109; “with respondere,Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 24; “with referre, id. Hec. prol. alt. 30. And sometimes with rursus (rursum),Plaut. Cas. prol. 33; id. Poen. prol. 79. —
IV. Like our again (in, I am going back again), Gr. αὺ̂, where an action is reversed (mostly colloquial): “aperi ... continuo operito denuo,and then cover it up again, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 76; cf. id. Merc. 5, 2, 14; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 4: “et nunc quid exspectat, Syre? an dum hinc denuo abeat, etc.,id. ib. 3, 2, 32: “fiet tibi puniceum corium postea atrum denuo,and then again back, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 61: “chlamydem sumam denuo,id. Merc. 5, 2, 79; Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; cf. Hand Turs. II. p. 278-280.
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